Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-15
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A HISTORY OF ADVENTURE
BY y. RIDER BAGGARD.

wealth and power. So they cruciiied their
Messiah because He came in lowty guise,
and now are they scattered about the earth.
Why, If | remember, SO said one of their
prophets that it should be. Well, let them
go, they broke my heart, those Jews, and
made me look with evil eyes across the
world, ay, and drove me to this wilderness
of II people that was before them. When
j would have taught them wisdom in Jeru-
salem they stoned me; ay, at the Gate of
the Temple, those white-bearded hypocrites
and rabbis bounded the people on TO stone
me! See, here is the mark of il to this
day." and with n sudden move she pulled
up the gauzy wrapping on her rounded
ARM, and pointed to a little scar that
showed red against its milky beauty.
shrunk back Mortified.
Pardon me-, oh, queen" ] said, "but /
am bewildered Nearly two thousand
years have rolled across the earth since the
Jewish Messiah hung upon His cross at
Golgotha. How, then, canSt thou have
taught thy philosophy TO the Jews before
He was? Thou art woman, and no spirit.
How can a woman live two thousand years?
Why dost thou befool me, oh, queens"
She leaned back on the couch, and once
more | felt the hidden eyes playing upon
INT and searching ont my heart.
ooh, MANI she said at last, speaking
very slowly and deliberately, "it seems that
there are still things upon the earth Of
which thou knowest naught. Dost thou still
believe hat all things die, even rs those
very Jews believed? | tell thee that naught
really dies. There Is no such thing as
Death, though there be u thing called
oh"hSe' oee' nn' S"o p'ih'r' 70 SohlP
sculptures Oh VIC rochy wall ihree
tlhleS TWO Ihousahu years nave passed
since 'ne lIS' VI tEc great race ''htt ht"ta
those pictures zen peloFe We pFe"'A o!e
peStliehee 'lat destroyed thei1, 5~- are
they hot dead' zen now they ave; per.
c1afce men very SPIRIT are drawn toward
Us nov. one &lahceu round. VI SIRE
" II sometimes seems 10 me th"t ny eyes
can see theih'
Eyes, but TO the world they are dead"
CAV, for n time; but even TO the world
are thee born again and again. l.. even l.,
Avcsha pronopnrad Asehal-for thot ia
nv name stranqer-t sov 70 thee that I
wait now for ono ! loved "a he born ooain
and here torrv t;1 mo fnds mo tpo,ving
of y surety maj bUbar be win como and
that here and hero only shall ne greet me.
WHY dost thou sfnnose that | who am ALL
powerful. I whose loveliness j. rreoter
than the lovelinnes NJ Tho Cracior Helen
of whom tbny usnd 70 sjnp and whose
wisdom ie crootor-ov ian limos more
oraat-Than tbn ,visdnno of solomon the
Wise. xyb know tba secrets of tbo earth
and It's riches and can turn all things to
NV usne. vbn have oven for awhile over.
come Chonge that ve call doatb-whv. 7
cav oh stranger dost tbou think :bat !
herd here with borhorians lower than the
beasts2p
81 know NOT - said bumb1v
eRecousa ! vait far him love Nv life
has Derchance been evil. know motor
VIII can say what il evil and what Is rcod2
so I fear to die. even if | could die. Which
can not. 10 90 and seek him where he is,
for between us there might be q wall !
could not climb-at least / fearso. Surely
easy would it be TO lose the way in those
great spaces wherein the suns wander on
forever. But the day will come, may he.
when ten thousand more years shave passed.
II are lost and melted into the vault
Of Time, even as the little clouds melt into
the gloom Of night, when he Shall be born
again, and then, following a law that is
stronger than any human plan, he will find
me here. and of a surety his heart win
soften toward me though | sinned against
him: nv, even though he knows me not
AGAIN, yet Will he love me, if only for my
beauty's sake"
For a moment | was dumfounded, and
could not ans Yer. The matter WAS too
oyerpoWering for my intellect to grasp.
'But even so. oh, %uuecn,n said at last,
seven If we men be born again and again,
that is not SO with thee. If thou sDeake3t
truly" Here she looked IN sharpIv. and
once more | caught the flash of those hid
den e~ves-"Thou.n went on. hurriediy,
swho hast never died.
",Vis GO y sba e,;a. "opd II l. en- hacarse
Jboyo holf 10 oborco ND bo,fh ne ,aorning
eolvod ono of tbo, r.oot ooo,ots az tho world
Tnll r,o etranrar. liza is-wbv tbarafora
shonll not life he lnnotbepod for awhilep
Wbat arc fem or twenty mr. fftv thousand
Years in tho history of ufa9 why in fen
thonsond wears scarce vii, the rain and
storing loecar a maintain ton hv n snan in
thicLnnse In two thousand wears those
coves have NOT chorrod. naugbt has
changed hut tho haoste ond man who isas
~ hooets Tharo l. n,urht tbot il wo,-
dorfn1 ahout tho matter coulast tbou but
nnderstond Iifa t. wonderful nv but
tLat = eho,ld ha q }itt1a is not
wonderful, Nature hath her animatiny